Upgraded protobuf to v3 and upgraded the android example to fix the deprecated imperative apply of gradle plugins (#871)

Author: nathanielheitsch

example/android/app/build.gradle

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+plugins {
+    id "com.android.application"
+    id "kotlin-android"
+    id "dev.flutter.flutter-gradle-plugin"
+}
+
 def localProperties = new Properties()
 def localPropertiesFile = rootProject.file('local.properties')
 if (localPropertiesFile.exists()) {
@@ -6,11 +12,6 @@ if (localPropertiesFile.exists()) {
     }
 }
 
-def flutterRoot = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.sdk')
-if (flutterRoot == null) {
-    throw new GradleException("Flutter SDK not found. Define location with flutter.sdk in the local.properties file.")
-}
-
 def flutterVersionCode = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.versionCode')
 if (flutterVersionCode == null) {
     flutterVersionCode = '1'
@@ -21,10 +22,6 @@ if (flutterVersionName == null) {
     flutterVersionName = '1.0'
 }
 
-apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
-apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
-apply from: "$flutterRoot/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/flutter.gradle"
-
 android {
     compileSdkVersion 33
 
@@ -65,8 +62,4 @@ android {
 
 flutter {
     source '../..'
-}
-
-dependencies {
-    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
 }

example/android/build.gradle

@@ -1,16 +1,3 @@
-buildscript {
-    ext.kotlin_version = '1.8.21'
-    repositories {
-        mavenCentral()
-        google()
-    }
-
-    dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.0.2'
-        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
-    }
-}
-
 allprojects {
     repositories {
         google()

example/android/settings.gradle

@@ -1,11 +1,25 @@
-include ':app'
+pluginManagement {
+    def flutterSdkPath = {
+        def properties = new Properties()
+        file("local.properties").withInputStream { properties.load(it) }
+        def flutterSdkPath = properties.getProperty("flutter.sdk")
+        assert flutterSdkPath != null, "flutter.sdk not set in local.properties"
+        return flutterSdkPath
+    }()
 
-def localPropertiesFile = new File(rootProject.projectDir, "local.properties")
-def properties = new Properties()
+    includeBuild("$flutterSdkPath/packages/flutter_tools/gradle")
 
-assert localPropertiesFile.exists()
-localPropertiesFile.withReader("UTF-8") { reader -> properties.load(reader) }
+    repositories {
+        google()
+        mavenCentral()
+        gradlePluginPortal()
+    }
+}
 
-def flutterSdkPath = properties.getProperty("flutter.sdk")
-assert flutterSdkPath != null, "flutter.sdk not set in local.properties"
-apply from: "$flutterSdkPath/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/app_plugin_loader.gradle"
+plugins {
+    id "dev.flutter.flutter-plugin-loader" version "1.0.0"
+    id "com.android.application" version "8.0.2" apply false
+    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.android" version "1.8.21" apply false
+}
+
+include ":app"

example/ios/Podfile.lock

@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ SPEC CHECKSUMS:
 
 PODFILE CHECKSUM: c4c93c5f6502fe2754f48404d3594bf779584011
 
-COCOAPODS: 1.14.3
+COCOAPODS: 1.15.2

example/pubspec.lock

@@ -430,10 +430,10 @@ packages:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
       name: protobuf
-      sha256: "01dd9bd0fa02548bf2ceee13545d4a0ec6046459d847b6b061d8a27237108a08"
+      sha256: "68645b24e0716782e58948f8467fd42a880f255096a821f9e7d0ec625b00c84d"
       url: "https://pub.dev"
     source: hosted
-    version: "2.1.0"
+    version: "3.1.0"
   provider:
     dependency: "direct main"
     description:

packages/flutter_reactive_ble/pubspec.lock

@@ -407,10 +407,10 @@ packages:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
       name: protobuf
-      sha256: "01dd9bd0fa02548bf2ceee13545d4a0ec6046459d847b6b061d8a27237108a08"
+      sha256: "68645b24e0716782e58948f8467fd42a880f255096a821f9e7d0ec625b00c84d"
       url: "https://pub.dev"
     source: hosted
-    version: "2.1.0"
+    version: "3.1.0"
   pub_semver:
     dependency: transitive
     description: